My very easy intention didn't manifest

[001]

Originally Posted by marinik

Moonrambler, I have had magic happen so often but the last one is unbelievable. In October last year there was a tiny opening for an international career for me (I wished for in a very vague way). I grabbed the opportunity and went for it (inspired action). After my second visit to our subsidiary in this country the GM there told mine he did not like me and didn’t want me although all the other members of the Executive Board where thrilled to have me. So it was an obstacle I couldn’t jump over or pass around in any way. This guy was there for another year at the time or even more. So I did my visualization – saw myself pull-up in front of the Head Office in my new red Porcher Cayenne, run up to the third floor where my office would be and great my colleague I am having a beautiful love relationship since my second visit. I could see the house I was living in.. all of it, I had March 3rd as the date.. Months passed, nothing was happening on the contrary, my chances were diminishing. After doing the visualization for about a month in December 2007 I let it go. The whole wish of going to this country to work. I even found all the reasons I shouldn’t. Why it was for the best And then, ant the end of March things just turned around at one evening event. A very important man from Headquarters (this is a mega-giga-multy-global firm) came and told me I was going, all the other players in the game that were against it before became my supporters. There are just a few loose ends to be tied and I am leaving in May or June!!!!! I must confess I never gave up, I sought out every opportunity to keep the idea of me going in the air. I spoke as if I was going for sure, I acted and planed everything as if I was leaving very soon. I kept the distance relationship very alive as if it was going to be naturally continued when I get there. But it was not so passionate any more, it was not as if my life depended on it. It was OK if it happened and OK if not. Since then the Cayenne became BMW X6 . It is still red. This is just one of my magical stories. The same way I lost 66 pounds last year, got this job in the first place in 2006. Live in a huge beautiful penthouse. Before IM and Thomas Troward and all the other authors I used to say that it was my ability to allow myself great things everybody else thought to be impossible.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin

This is a very interesting story although personally I think it likely has more to do with the date you set than with you not caring.

[hkalchemy]

Surely saying 'just to prove to myself that it works' means that you don't believe it. And if you don't believe it, it doesn't work (or so they say). So your 'intention' is inherently self defeating.

If you know you're going to see the hat, you'll see the hat. And that's it.

Michael.

[001]

Originally Posted by hkalchemy

Surely saying 'just to prove to myself that it works' means that you don't believe it. And if you don't believe it, it doesn't work (or so they say). So your 'intention' is inherently self defeating.

If you know you're going to see the hat, you'll see the hat. And that's it.

Michael.

Not so. I believed from the very beginning it would work. I was 100% sure that I would see a red hat. I would have bet money on it.

I knew I was going to see the hat, and I didn't see the hat. And that's it.

[Angela]

Originally Posted by 001

Not so. I believed from the very beginning it would work. I was 100% sure that I would see a red hat. I would have bet money on it.

I knew I was going to see the hat, and I didn't see the hat. And that's it.

You did see a red hat. You said, "this particular red hat doesn't count."

(because it's an image, because it's from a person who knew you wanted to see a red hat, because it's didn't show up where I wanted it, because etc. etc. etc.)

Allowing, baby, is where it's at. Gratitude, too, is the most powerful resource at your disposal. Right now, though, you are a being NO to the abundance in the universe, despite your talk of how you 100% believed it. You are swimming in a beautiful, cool clear lake, and you are complaining that you're thirsty. If you'd really like to have abundance, if you'd really like to welcome what you want into your experience, I suggest you try saying, "YES!" and "THANK YOU!" with your life.

Good luck!

[marinik]

Originally Posted by Angela

You did see a red hat. You said, "this particular red hat doesn't count."

(because it's an image, because it's from a person who knew you wanted to see a red hat, because it's didn't show up where I wanted it, because etc. etc. etc.)

Allowing, baby, is where it's at. Gratitude, too, is the most powerful resource at your disposal. Right now, though, you are a being NO to the abundance in the universe, despite your talk of how you 100% believed it. You are swimming in a beautiful, cool clear lake, and you are complaining that you're thirsty. If you'd really like to have abundance, if you'd really like to welcome what you want into your experience, I suggest you try saying, "YES!" and "THANK YOU!" with your life.

Good luck!

Angela, you are so right. I am a cancer survivor. I am cancer free for 2 years now – I decided to be, and it was so, although I rejected all the treatments. And IM is something I am “experimenting” with for years now. I am grateful all the way. I am grateful for all the hoops and treats for all the good and all the bad. It wasn’t like that from day one. No! I had to teach my brain to see the rainbow. I used to be a very negative person who would judge everybody. I learned to love and let everybody be who they are. It was very hard sometimes. I still have the occasional IDIOT episode for somebody. I am a manager who coordinates/manages 1100 people. I have 10 managers reporting to me directly. The whole IT system, Card and Payment system of a multinational bank is under my responsibility among other departments. There has to be an incompetent stupid IDIOT from time to time. I commute with my friend and still have a hard time to show him how every morning is beautiful and all the drivers are great drivers. This is a tough one (driver thing) but it is doable.

The red hat and the blue feather are dead ends if you ask me. There is no real desire behind that intention. You have to have real passion at the beguiling of the whole process. A true longing or a goal for the greater good. If I ask the Universe to give me a sign to help keep my strength in pursuing a goal it gives it to me, and if my intention is false or not sincere it dose not give me a sign.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by marinik

The red hat and the blue feather are dead ends if you ask me. There is no real desire behind that intention. You have to have real passion at the beguiling of the whole process.

Actually, there is a genuine intention, whenever someone does one of these "red hat, blue feather" type of experiments.

And the intention is to find out whether the Law of Attraction is for real. The desire behind that intention can be quite real, as real as somebody's desire to find out, say, whether God really exists.

Yes, I know that inherently the experimental design is flawed. A superior experiment, design-wise, is simply to intend as follows:

"If the Law of Attraction is real, then I intend that the universe will show this to me, in a way that I find convincing and persuasive."

And leave the rest to the universe.

Nevertheless, the "red hat, blue feather" type of experiments can and do work, as many people on this forum have already previously discovered.

On the passion issue, it really depends. Passion is definitely helpful, but generally a person is passionate only about what he (subjectively) considers to be the "big things" in his life. However, if passion is a necessary element, then IM/LOA would never be able to help you with the "small things" in life.

Again, as many people on this forum have already personally discovered, this isn't true. IM/LOA works in a wide range of circumstances where you aren't feeling any passion at all, but would just like a quick, easy, convenient solution to a relatively small problem (eg finding an empty parking lot really fast).

In my personal experience, IM/LOA can work very well even for intentions where you don't really have any passion. What you do need is a calm, clear, focused mind when you do your IM/LOA on those intentions. The clearer and calmer and more focused your mind, the better.

[marinik]

"If the Law of Attraction is real, then I intend that the universe will show this to me, in a way that I find convincing and persuasive."

This exactly it, IF the LOA is real means you have doubt and not passion in the sense that you know it dose exist. If the red hat is to be manifested through doubt it wont. I manifest “rock star parking” because I know I can. But while I was trying to do it in the begging “Prove LOA works by …. Finding parking… extra ticket… or other small tings” it did not. Coming from doubt negates its existence and the proof is that it does not exist – you get what you believe is true.

[Acting Like Godot]

Everyone has doubts, when they first hear about the LOA. As a matter of fact, everyone, including you and I, will have doubts even after using LOA for a long time.

It is just that the nature of the doubt changes. Eg in the past, one might doubt that thoughts alone can ever change reality. Later one might believe that thoughts alone can change reality, but doubt that this happens regularly and constantly. Or one may believe that he can manifest 50 dollars, but doubt that he can manifest 500, or 5000, or 5,000,000 dollars.

Doubt does not mean that none of your intentions will manifest. As a matter of fact, even if you totally disbelieve in LOA, your reality will still exist, and it will still be created and driven by your thoughts, even if you do not realise that.

In a sense, you could see LOA practitioners as being in a continual process of tackling doubts. Even the IM extraodinaire, Jesus Christ had his doubts, eg in the Garden of Gethsemane.

[moonrambler]

Thank you, ALG, as always. I do not understand all the advice against the red hat/blue feather experiments, how they can't work because there is doubt, because it's testing the LoA, because it doesn't involve true desire, etc.

The 'original' blue feather experiment was very simple and he was advised not to go for some big goal he had that he was passionate about (finding his soul-mate), but rather something small. And it was ok to learn how the LoA works, and it wasn't specified that he had to believe in it. There weren't all these complications and rules . . . just this:

"To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there."

"I'm supposed to practice now?"

"Yes."

"OK . . . A blue feather."

[mercuryrising]

Originally Posted by 001

All I wanted today was one thing: To see, at some point, someone wearing a red hat to prove to myself that the LoA really works. Well, I kept a very close look out for someone with a red hat and didn't see one. This is the kind of thing that would be likely to happen anyway just by coincidence. I can't believe it. I had 100% faith that I would see someone in a red hat today. I was sure of it. What did I do wrong?

I was just considering how this thread you started led you to see a red hat.

I prefer to put LOA in the following statement: What the thinker thinks, the prover proves. It's from the book Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson.

What it means is whatever you believe, you will summon the proof to make it true. The way you go about finding proof is the same way you go about finding anything; it's quite ordinary. The power is in what you believe.

Like say you live in Timbuk2 but you believe you live in New York City. If you believed strongly enough, you would no longer be compatible with living in Timbuk2-- the town square just can't replace Time Square and no one can understand your Brooklyn accent-- the bus ride to New York City, however, would be like any other trip cross country.

Instead of starting with wanting a million dollars, start with believing you are a millionaire. How does a millionaire think? What does a millionaire do? The process of learning the millionaire mindset would come through normal lines of investigation, but eventually your reality would conform to what you believe.

[javamannen2]

001: You say you were absolutely certain that you would see a red hat. But now that certainty is gone. Because some artificial time limit was passed, and your senses contradicted your previously unshakeable conviction. You decided to trust your senses over your set intention. But this IM thing doesn't work like that. Like Yoda said to Luke: "Do, or do not. There is no try." You can't approach it like some science experiment. You have to adopt it like a religion. Become a fanatic! No matter what your senses and critical thinking tells you, you must not waver in your faith that the Red Hat will appear in your reality in full glorious 3D, someday, somehow. The more you believe it, the more you tune in to that reality. But you can't go around writing doubt-filled posts on forums like this, thus nullifying your previous efforts. If it takes a lifetime to be able to manifest that shitty red hat, then so be it.

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by moonrambler

I do not understand all the advice against the red hat/blue feather experiments, how they can't work because there is doubt, because it's testing the LoA

The advice isn't altogether invalid. See, the very fact you're testing the LOA with "blue feather, red hat" experiments means that you are entertaining two kinds of thoughts:

(a) the possibility that LOA is true

(b) the possibility that LOA is not true

Now assume, for the purposes of discussion, that LOA is true. Then the fact that you are entertaining the (a) and (b) thoughts at the same time means that you could end up getting very mixed evidence.

For example, you could get a synchronicity which does seem to indicate that LOA is true, but which at the same time may well be dismissed as a random, meaningless coincidence.

In other words, due to your thoughts about (a) and (b), you are attracting both:

(i) evidence that LOA is true; AND

(ii) evidence that LOA is not true.

Of course, if from the start you are very much more geared towards the (a) thoughts, what will happen is that you will attract stronger evidence that LOA is true (for example, you will get bizarre, unusual synchronicities which are very difficult to dismiss as meaningless, random coincidences).

Whereas, if from the start you are very much more geared towards the (b) thoughts, then you will attract little or no evidence that LOA is true, and perhaps even evidence that LOA is not true (eg you may meet someone who will explain to you the concept of confirmation bias, and then you say, "Oh, LOA is just one big mistake arising from confirmation bias").

Nevertheless, the point is that there must be very few people in the universe who, upon hearing about LOA for the first time, are just going to be able to accept and believe in the LOA straightaway. Therefore experiments may be helpful. With luck, you'll generate a synchronicity that is "mixed" in evidential value, but then it will make you feel curious enough to try and try again, and then you will get more and more synchronicities ....

.... and eventually, over time, you'll see that it's just not logical to believe that LOA doesn't exist.

[Lil Chris]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

The advice isn't altogether invalid. See, the very fact you're testing the LOA with "blue feather, red hat" experiments means that you are entertaining two kinds of thoughts:

(a) the possibility that LOA is true

(b) the possibility that LOA is not true

Now assume, for the purposes of discussion, that LOA is true. Then the fact that you are entertaining the (a) and (b) thoughts at the same time means that you could end up getting very mixed evidence.

For example, you could get a synchronicity which does seem to indicate that LOA is true, but which at the same time may well be dismissed as a random, meaningless coincidence.

In other words, due to your thoughts about (a) and (b), you are attracting both:

(i) evidence that LOA is true; AND

(ii) evidence that LOA is not true.

Of course, if from the start you are very much more geared towards the (a) thoughts, what will happen is that you will attract stronger evidence that LOA is true (for example, you will get bizarre, unusual synchronicities which are very difficult to dismiss as meaningless, random coincidences).

Whereas, if from the start you are very much more geared towards the (b) thoughts, then you will attract little or no evidence that LOA is true, and perhaps even evidence that LOA is not true (eg you may meet someone who will explain to you the concept of confirmation bias, and then you say, "Oh, LOA is just one big mistake arising from confirmation bias").

Nevertheless, the point is that there must be very few people in the universe who, upon hearing about LOA for the first time, are just going to be able to accept and believe in the LOA straightaway. Therefore experiments may be helpful. With luck, you'll generate a synchronicity that is "mixed" in evidential value, but then it will make you feel curious enough to try and try again, and then you will get more and more synchronicities ....

.... and eventually, over time, you'll see that it's just not logical to believe that LOA doesn't exist.

WOW!
As always excellent explanation... Thanks!

[marinik]

OK people, lets entertain the notion that we have all collectively manifested ALG so we could find clarity. As I see it he has manifested a lot of time to spend and help us . Again we have manifested each other to have numerous perspectives and find our own. Or to make it real simple… we have all IM’d our own reality where each of the replies and comments have a very specific meaning and trigger very different thought patterns in all of us – thus our own existence. We read the same words but “live” different worlds. The red hat or the blue feather are real as much as we are to each other. This is just a mental exercise . Please be gentle guys and girls .

[hkalchemy]

I want to share an interesting experience. Having been reading this thread from time to time, I suppose the thought of a red hat must have fallen into my mind because yesterday, I was attending a rather formal occasion and, at this most unlikely venue, I suddenly came face to face with someone I have known for years wearing a bright red woolen hat. I instantly thought of this thread and was quite excited for a while. I asked the person why he was wearing the hat, and he said he really didn't know - just felt like it.

Coincidence? Personally I don't believe in it. The blue feather, on the other hand, remains elusive.

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[moonrambler]

I like the idea of practicing (in a fun, playful way) to get better at it, rather than testing it to see if it's true.

Yesterday while out and about I decided I would try and attract something specific. I was sitting in a parking lot and I noticed somebody's license plate said "TWINIE." So, I decided to see twins yesterday. I closed my eyes and daydreamed about some twins I have known, went to high school with, went to college with. Then into my mind popped Mary Kay & Ashley Olsen. I laughed and said "No, it won't count if I see them because they're on magazine covers all the time." Then I was amused to see that I was already discounting one possible experience, but really, how could seeing the Olsen twins on a magazine cover count?

The next rummage sale I went to had a book for sale by Mary Kay Ash of Mary Kay Cosmetics. Which made me laugh again.

I didn't see any twins all day, but one sale I went to had a bed headboard for sale and they had put a sign on it that said "Twin Headboard." I pointed at it to acknowledge that counted. Then back home, I'm reading a book by Stuart Wilde (on the recommendation of somebody here), and he was talking about going to a store and attempting to buy Twinning Tea. Hee.

[Lil Chris]

Originally Posted by moonrambler

I like the idea of practicing (in a fun, playful way) to get better at it, rather than testing it to see if it's true.

Yesterday while out and about I decided I would try and attract something specific. I was sitting in a parking lot and I noticed somebody's license plate said "TWINIE." So, I decided to see twins yesterday. I closed my eyes and daydreamed about some twins I have known, went to high school with, went to college with. Then into my mind popped Mary Kay & Ashley Olsen. I laughed and said "No, it won't count if I see them because they're on magazine covers all the time." Then I was amused to see that I was already discounting one possible experience, but really, how could seeing the Olsen twins on a magazine cover count?

The next rummage sale I went to had a book for sale by Mary Kay Ash of Mary Kay Cosmetics. Which made me laugh again.

I didn't see any twins all day, but one sale I went to had a bed headboard for sale and they had put a sign on it that said "Twin Headboard." I pointed at it to acknowledge that counted. Then back home, I'm reading a book by Stuart Wilde (on the recommendation of somebody here), and he was talking about going to a store and attempting to buy Twinning Tea. Hee.

Would you consider that actual IM...?

[GranCanaria]

Originally Posted by Lil Chris

Would you consider that actual IM...?

I think it depends on how badly you want your intention to manifest. I've tried to but now and stopped intending a blue feather but now I see feathers all the time, not blue though. They make me smile and I'm sure the key to better results is gratefulness...anyone agrees?

[moonrambler]

Originally Posted by Lil Chris

Would you consider that actual IM...?

I don't know -- they weren't very stunning coincidences, though it was a little funny that somebody had put that sign on the headboard with the word 'twin,' as though we otherwise we wouldn't know what it was.

The one thing that makes me think something was going on, is a bit later this morning I got to realizing that the Olsen girl's names are actually Ashley and Mary KATE. Not Mary Kay. Yet the universe reflected my erroneous thought back at me with a book by Mary Kay Ash. Which really is something to take note of, that the universe doesn't necessarily reflect back what we might call "actual reality," but rather what we think is reality, even if it's not true.

I actually wrote down coincidences all day long just to really pay attention and see what happens, how often they happen. I wasn't trying to IM anything else. So I don't know what the coincidences mean. Like I was looking for Ontario St., which turned out to be in a group of streets named after the Great Lakes, and then the guy on the radio started talking about shipwrecks. I also found an issue of The Mother Earth News at a garage sale, which only happens about once every two years, so it was odd timing that I had just mentioned "Mother Earth News" lifestyle on here a day or two ago as being one of the hang-ups I had encountered with money psychological issues.

[Lil Chris]

Originally Posted by moonrambler

Which really is something to take note of, that the universe doesn't necessarily reflect back what we might call "actual reality," but rather what we think is reality, even if it's not true.

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